Have you been scouring the web for the next cool viral game to help you waste away the work day? Look no further.
The Jet Li Fearless game allows you to create your own custom highlight reel using explosive fight scenes and original music from the film, and then e-mail the final product to all your friends. It might not win you a Golden Globe, but at least it’ll give you something much better to do than washing the dishes.
Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:
1) Stomp the Yard: $22 million (owner: Bill Clark, A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint)
Don’t Call Me Shirley had a huge week, owning the first, third and fourth place movies this week to come within $8 million of Mark Pfeiffer and Reel Times. I’ve said it prematurely before, but enjoy the view, Mark.
2) Night at the Museum: $17.1 million, $185.7 million to date (Will Harris, What’s All This, Then?)
Shockingly true fact: The last four movies that featured Ben Stiller in a starring role have grossed over $100 million.
3) The Pursuit of Happyness: $9.1 million, $134.4 million to date (Bill Clark: A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint)
Scary Clown would be in second place had they picked this movie instead of “Stranger than Fiction.” Sigh.
4) Dreamgirls: $8.1 million, $64.9 million to date (Bill Clark: A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint)
Bill’s onslaught continues, and “Dreamgirls” still hasn’t opened fully yet.
5) Freedom Writers: $7..1 million, $18.4 million to date.
Easily the most profitable free agent of the season.
6) Children of Men: $6.4 million, $21.3 million to date (David Medsker, Scary Clown Studios)
After winning the award for Best Picture by the lauded Central Ohio Film Critics Association, we would have expected this to do better. After all, everyone knows that those central Ohioans are known for their impeccable taste.
7) Alpha Dog: $6.1 million
Not even Mr. Sexy Back can make this movie worth seeing.
8) Primeval: $5.9 million (Jason Zingale, Seven Strangers Productions)
JZ’s wishing he had kept “Freedom Writers” right about now.
9) Arthur and the Invisibles: $4.3 million
Five words: Madonna and Jimmy Fallon are siblings.
10) The Good Shepherd: $3.9 million, $54.2 million to date (Bill Clark, Don’t Call Me Shirley)
In this instant-gratification society, and significant percentage of the public insists on being bored for two hours and 45 minutes at a time.
Current standings:
1) Reel Times Pictures $291.5 million
2) A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint: $283.4 million
3) TSSU Productions: $279.1 million
4) Punch and Pie Pictures: $266.2 million
5) What’s All This, Then?: $256.1 million
6) Seven Strangers Productions: $195 million
7) Scary Clown Studios: $181 million
8) Nights and Weekends: $171.8 million
Don’t Call Me Shirley puts Reel Times away with the unnecessary remake of “The Hitcher,” while Scary Clown hopes that “Letters from Iwo Jima” will finally get released wide before the season ends.
Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:
1) The Pursuit of Happyness: $27 million (Bill Clark: A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint)
Bill, finally gets to play one of his first two picks, and it’s a doozy, easily putting away the much higher ranked “Charlotte’s Web,” much to my surprise. (Pssst: “Charlotte” is the far better movie. Pass it on.)
2) Eragon: $23.4 million (Jason Zingale, Seven Strangers Productions)
Another huge surprise. The “movie event of the year” is the textbook definition of fun-bad. But that didn’t seem to bother the elves, dwarves and hobbits one bit.
3) Charlotte’s Web: $12 million (Deb Medsker, Punch and Pie Pictures)
Stunning. How did this not wipe the floor with everyone else at the multiplexes? Perhaps this is the audience rebelling to the news that Dakota Fanning is considering a role where her character is raped. Surely, for someone so pure to commit an act so vile, even for a movie, is the first sign of the Apocalypse.
4) Happy Feet: $8.5 million, $149.4 million to date (Mark Pfeiffer, Reel Times)
Perhaps my joke about Reel Times’ stay in second place was a tad premature. He now has a $25 million lead over Punch and Pie.
5) The Holiday: $8.2 million, $25.3 million to date (owner: Mark Pfeiffer, Reel Times Studios)
After two months of boy junk, the women, it appears, are fighting back.
6) Apocalypto: $7.7 million, $27.9 million to date (David Medsker, Scary Clown Studios)
Don’t feel sorry for Mel Gibson. The movie will ultimately make money and as long as his movies do that, Mel will never, ever hurt for work.
7) Blood Diamond: $6.2 million, $18.3 million to date (Kristin Dreyer-Kramer, Nights and Weekends)
Yeah, I wouldn’t want to see a movie starring two of the most beautiful people on the planet, either.
8) Casino Royale: $5.7 million, $137.5 million to date (Steve Wamsley, TSSU Productions)
TSSU still holds a commanding lead, but with one movie left (“The Good Shepherd”), expect it to dwindle.
9) The Nativity Story: $4.7 million, $23 million to date (Mark Pfeiffer, Reel Times)
Insert your own joke here. Because I don’t have one.
10) Unaccompanied Minors: $3.6 million, $10.2 million to date (Kristin Dreyer-Kramer, Nights and Weekends)
The Chicago Sun-Times gave this zero stars. Clearly, that writer was not subjected to the junk (ahem, “Home of the Brave”) that we had been subjected to prior to seeing this movie.
Current standings:
1) TSSU Productions: $250.1 million
2) Reel Times Pictures $197.7 million
3) Punch and Pie Pictures: $172.6 million
4) Scary Clown Studios: $132.2 million
5) Seven Strangers Productions: $121.1 million
6) Nights and Weekends: $97.3 million
7) A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint: $35.1 million
8) What’s All This, Then?: $5 million
Coming this week: What’s All This, Then? tries to get out of the cellar with “Rocky Balboa” (Wednesday) and “Night at the Museum” (Friday), though he’s not encouraged by the fact that neither movie is particularly good. Scary Clown releases “Letters from Iwo Jima,” though would like to see the studio ramp up the promotional efforts a little bit. Shirley releases the much-anticipated “Dreamgirls,” while NightsandWeekends hangs on for dear life with the sports drama “We Are Marshall.” On Christmas, it’s Dueling Medskers: Scary Clown releases “Children of Men” and Punch and Pie releases “Black Christmas” (which Scary Clown dropped in exchange for “Turistas.” Whoops.)
Santa has delivered an early Christmas present to Browncoats the world over: a shiny new “Firefly” experience in the form of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG:
Multiverse, maker of a free MMO-creation platform, plans to announce Friday morning that it’s struck a deal with Fox Licensing to turn the show into an MMORPG in the fashion of Star Wars Galaxies or Eve Online.
The “Browncoats,” as Firefly’s most devoted fans are known, have been campaigning to bring the show back almost since the moment it was canceled in late 2002. Now they’ll get their wish, albeit in a new form.
“We see virtual worlds as an extraordinarily promising new entertainment medium,” said Adam Kline, Fox Licensing’s vice president of media enterprises in an e-mail. “We believe Multiverse can deliver an experience that will remain true to the original series, while enabling a whole new level of personal involvement for fans.”
The game is still very much in the development stages…which should give you plenty of time to decide whether you want to play as a Reaver; a preferred client of Inara and her fellow Companions; or both.
Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:
1) Apocalypto: $14.1 million (owner: David Medsker, Scary Clown Studios)
Jack Black was mildly disappointed that his movie finished second to Crazy Mel’s Mayan Adventure, but when he heard that the lead character executed a perfect Power Slide in a primitive rock-off of sorts, all was forgiven.
2) The Holiday: $13.5 million (owner: Mark Pfeiffer, Reel Times Studios)
I’m not sure which is more surprising: that this under-promoted rom-com did so well, or that Box Office Mojo is listing the movie’s budget as a staggering $85 million. When your biggest name is Jude Law, there is no reason in the world your movie should cost $85 million without a bazillion special effects.
3) Happy Feet: $12.7 million, $137.7 million to date (owner: Mark Pfeiffer, Reel Times Studios)
Enjoy the view from second place, Mark. It ain’t gonna last.
4) Casino Royale: $8.8 million, $128.8 million to date (Steve Wamsley, TSSU Productions)
James Bond gives Texas Hold ‘Em a brief stay of execution.
5) Blood Diamond: $8.5 million (Kristin Dreyer-Kramer, Nights and Weekends)
Ow. A $100 million movie starring the King of the World and the Prettiest Oscar Winner Ever lays a big ole egg. Kristin’s second round pick looks to be an even bigger bust than her first round pick (“Flushed Away”). Uh oh.
6) Unaccompanied Minors: $6.2 million (Kristin Dreyer-Kramer, Nights and Weekends)
Okay, so it’s sitting at 33% on Rotten Tomatoes right now. But after seeing “Home of the Brave” earlier in the week, this movie was a godsend.
7) Déjà Vu: $6 million, $53 million to date (owner: David Medsker Scary Clown Studios)
Man, I need to create some machine that enables me to go back in time over and over in order to convince people that they’ve never seen this movie and must therefore pay to see it again.
8) The Nativity Story: $5.5 million, $15.7 million to date (Mark Pfeiffer, Reel Times)
The studio couldn’t have been thrilled when the news broke that star Keisha Castle-Hughes, who plays Mary, is pregnant…by her 19-year-old boyfriend (that’s statutory rape here in America, for those keeping score at home).
9) Deck the Halls: $3.9 million, $30 million to date (Deb Medsker: Punch and Pie Pictures)
Nothing will get you thinking like a movie executive faster than the skill of underestimating the intelligence of the moviegoing public.
10) The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause: $3.3 million, $77.2 million to date (owner: Jason Zingale, Seven Strangers Productions)
Maybe not the $130 million-plus flick JZ was looking for, but it’s still $40 million up on “Stranger than Fiction.”
11) Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan: $2.5 million, $120.6 million to date (owner: Deb Medsker, Punch and Pie Pictures)
I’m starting the backlash here: the movie was funny, but it wasn’t that funny, people.
12) Stranger than Fiction: $1.5 million, $39 million to date (Scary Clown Studios)
The truly strange part is that I thought this high-brow dramedy would be worthy of a first round pick. Should have taken a lesson from my wife and her “Deck the Halls” philosophy.
13) Turistas: $1.3 million, $5.8 million to date (Scary Clown Studios)
Hey, it was a waiver wire pickup, it could have been worse. But if it’s outgrossed by “Black Christmas” (which was picked up by Punch and Pie, a.k.a. my wife), well, then I have to eat a big ol’ pile of fool.
Conspicuously absent from the projections:
Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj. Gone after one week? Brutal.
Flushed Away. No rodent this smart deserves this kind of treatment.
Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. Why this movie wasn’t released in early ’07, I’ll never know.
The Fountain. Okay, maybe not conspicuously absent, since it deliberately takes people’s minds (and patience) and gives them a good thrashing.
Bobby. Wouldn’t you think that the Democrats’ victory in the mid-term elections would change the movie’s fortunes a little?
Current standings (previous week’s standings):
1) TSSU Productions: $239.8 million (1)
2) Reel Times Pictures $167 million (3)
3) Punch and Pie Pictures: $155.2 million (2)
4) Scary Clown Studios: $112.2 million (5)
5) Seven Strangers Productions: $93.9 million (4)
6) Nights and Weekends: $82.4 million (6)
7) A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint: $7.7 million (7)
8) What’s All This, Then?: $3.8 million (8)
Coming this week: Six currently owned movies open wide (Don’t Call Me Shirley, wisely, dropped “Home of the Brave,” after hearing the scathing advance word). Reel Times opens “Breaking and Entering,” Seven Strangers goes for the “LOTR” crowd with “Eragon” (though the fact that it’s screening on Thursday night has to be disconcerting), and TSSU releases its last movie of the season, “The Good Shepherd.” Don’t Call Me Shirley, in a big to get out of the cellar, drops its top two picks in the draft, “Dreamgirls” and “The Pursuit of Happyness,” while Punch and Pie makes a power play for the pole position with “Charlotte’s Web,” which boasts box-office goddess Dakota Fanning.
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